Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Finance Manager to work in a truly global environment to oversee financial operations, including accounting, forecasting, planning, and compliance, reporting to Regional Finance Director Americas. The role provides long term development potential for someone eager to demonstrate their skills and experience in the fast-paced soft commodities environment.

Business Overview

Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

Remuneration: anticipated $140-160,000 per year (dependant on experience), comprehensive and attractive benefits package and annual discretionary bonus.

Key Accountabilities

• End to end ownership of the control environment for the full cycle of the business with a focus on the complete enterprise risk matrix of the business unit, and lead support for regional compliance as needed
• Timely and accurate management and financial reporting for the business unit
• Complete oversight of all external tax and compliance related requirements and reporting impacting the business unit
• Ensure compliance with all Internal financial and accounting policies and guidelines including authorisation matrixes, credit, counterparty, and trading mandate limits as well as policy roll outs and periodic checks
• Ownership of all corporate reporting to group for the business unit
• Oversight of the unit’s ERP systems and processes
• Ownership of all historical organisation data related to management and financial reporting
• Qualitative review of monthly financials and providing detailed analysis to stakeholders
• Tracking cycle time efficiencies and reporting on all key business value drivers with a thorough understanding of the business value drivers
• Developing and maintaining financial projections/forecasts and sensitivity analysis including detailed models in line with commercial strategies
• Ownership of all budgeting processes and month on month variance analysis with detailed commentary of performance to drive cost efficiencies and identify opportunities
• Perform all ad-hoc research as may be needed by the stakeholders
• Working capital tracking and reporting on optimal balance sheet optimization including tracking all financial covenants of the organisation
• Drive finance transformation to improve synergy within the team and enhance collaboration with stakeholders in trade, commercial & operations, logistics, IT and corporate
• Drive contribution to the bottom line through various structured trade finance opportunities and ensuring robust insurance and facilities management
• Provide thought leadership for their team with a focus on developing a best-in-class team
• Align departmental short-term goals for maximum impact on organization strategy; process optimization to drive strategy and collaboration

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in finance, accounting, OR a relevant professional accounting qualification.
• Extensive progressive experience in finance and accounting is essential, with a strong preference for backgrounds in commodities, manufacturing or FMCG, and prior experience as a senior controller or senior manager within a finance department.
• External audit experience, or corporate finance – DESIRABLE
• Experience with financial modelling – DESIRABLE
• Experience with project management and IT implementations
• Good team player with ability to work independently and lead cross functional teams
• High attention to detail and open minded with a quick learning curve
• Ability to work with diverse cultures

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as an Assistant Plant Manager at our facility in Albany, New York State. The Assistant Plant Manager will assist in managing the day-to-day operation of the Westway Feed Products bulk and medicated liquid feed facility to maximize efficiency, safety, and profitability. This role will ensure that all orders are handled effectively and in line with customer’s needs. Working within our highly diverse business you will have the opportunity to make a real impact working on a range of regional and global projects, support on the day-to- day management of Plant issues.

We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Business Overview

Westway Feed Products is North America’s largest manufacturer of liquid supplements for livestock. Additionally, we produce feed mill products, dried molasses and industrial products. The core concept of Westway’s business is to utilize co-products from other industries and convert them into safe, high-quality, cost effective, livestock feed supplements. While Westway’s primary ingredient for many of our products is molasses, we also incorporate other co-products. The concept of utilizing these co-products is the foundation of our sustainability platform. Today, Westway operates 22 production facilities across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Our geographic reach allows for products to be developed according to environmental and production system variations across the country.

Westway has achieved Great Place to Work certification for 2023-2024.

Salary: $80,000 – to mid $90,000

We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Key accountabilities:

• Directly supervises and coordinates the activities of the plant employees.
• Assists the plant manager with recruitment, training, performance management, compensation, time-off and discipline.
• Coordinates production and receiving, and ensures orders are fulfilled correctly.
• Observes and makes recommendations regarding the efficiency of the plant operations.
• Assists in planning and coordinating customer service activities in consultation with the plant manager, acts as a contact for customers in conjunction with plant manager
• Enforces company policies and procedures to promote and ensure a safe and environmentally responsible workplace, assisting with safety meetings and inspections.
• Ensures all production is carried out as per company polices and regulations, including ensuring appropriate product mixing and blending, and coordinating the logistics and movement of product.
• Plans and completes record keeping programs, verifying records for all medicated products.
• Assists with plant audits and completes special projects as requested by management.
• Interacts and communicates with colleagues and employees in a professional and appropriate manner and responds to and gives feedback in a respectful and positive manner.
• Takes the initiative to identify problems, uses judgment to find appropriate solutions and follows through on resolving issues in a timely manner.
• Maintains confidentiality and supports team efforts, actively working to generate respect and enthusiasm, cooperation, and active learning from team members.

Skills and Expertise

To perform the duties of this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below outline the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies that are required in this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Experience as a lead/senior plant operator within preferably agricultural liquids, feed mills, chemicals, chemical fertilizers, FMCG or industrial blending and bulk operating.
• Experience and knowledge of staff supervision.
• Knowledge of and skill in operating equipment, manual handling activities, and the ability to use hand and power tools.
• Customer service focus and meticulous attention to detail in documentation checking and verifying.
• Able to read, analyze, and interpret documents (regulations, policies, reports, bids, ), blueprints, drawings and write reports, correspondence, and procedures.
• Able to effectively present information, communicate with, and respond to questions and complaints from staff, co- workers, management, and customers.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and able to learn other software.
• No vision impairments or colour blindness and a general good fitness, condition, and physique to safely work outside for long periods of time, in shifts and overtime (as necessary), in any weather condition.
• Able to work at height without limitations and in confined places using (vertical) ladders and pathways (e.g. walking on platforms, scaffolding, climbing on top of railcars, truck trailers and land tanks, etc.).
• Able to operate forklift trucks.
• Knowledge of safely working with chemicals and hazardous substances.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Westway Values

Integrity, Accountability, Teamwork, Passion for Service, Business insight

Westway’s values guide our pursuit of providing a safe and rewarding environment for our employees while helping our customers to thrive.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.